KLT23: The Perfect Soldier

When Allied commanders during World War II needed engineers to clear the beaches of Normandy, when the 4th Infantry Division needed airfields repaired, roads maintained, and bridges built in Vietnam, and when the 24th Infantry Division needed someone to identify and mark the main routes into Iraq during the Gulf War there was one unit that stood above all others. That unit was the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion. The 299th was activated on March 1st, 1943 at Camp White, Oregon. Since then the unit has been put on reserve and active status, deactivated and reactivated, and assigned many different higher headquarters in order to meet the Army’s mission. The 299th Combat Engineer Battalion had always been quick to act, brave under fire, and completed crucial missions in order to ensure the mobility of the main force. The 299th is a very distinctive and proud unit.

Being a soldier is one of the most effective and honorable carriers a country could have. Citizens have always appreciated soldiers due to their importance in saving and protecting them. However, soldiers’ path consists of many struggles that might threaten their life. Wrong move can cause solders to lose their life and that shows how serious being a soldier is. Brian Turner in his poem “What Every Soldier Should Know” talked about soldiers’ life and gave some instructions regarding soldiers’ security. The poem also described the environment surrounding soldiers in wars and how the battlefield was. The poet concerned about American soldiers since the writer is American. The poem also concerned about the American soldiers’ experience in an Arab country. The poem was written in 2005 while the war of Iraq was in 2003, which explains the Arabic phrases within the poem. The poem main point was to show that soldiers’ life in Iraq was dangerous and full of non-expectable surprises that could threaten soldiers’ life. The poem was powerful in conveying how American soldiers felt during the war of Iraq because of the many strategies that the poet used such as his choice of words, his usage of Arabic phrases and the way of describing citizens of Iraq.

Everybody in this world struggles with understanding their identity, and I believe each person is born with a dual personality. As we begin to search and find our purpose in this world, we discover these personalities and have to make a “good vs. evil” decision about what type of person we want to project ourselves as in our day to day interactions. In many ways, Full Metal Jacket displays every human’s inner struggle of shaping these personalities in one way or another. At the beginning of the film, Sergeant Hartman immediately begins shaping the young soldier’s own internal battle with a tone that helps the viewer understand the style and motivation these young men will be training.

The Total Soldier concept is what every soldier should stride to be, it is the the idea of acting as a professional soldier in every way at all times no matter the situation in which you find yourself. It is basing everything you do of the army values and going above and beyond what is asked of you, without being told to do so.

His cleverness shows us no matter what diseases you have you can make wonderful inventions. Kevin has made a lot of useful inventions to help Max and himself escape from trouble. “This is you partner in crime?” Killer Kane says to me. “I guess maybe you are a retard after all.” Freak is pointing the squirt gun right in his face and he says “Guess what I got for Christmas Mr. Kane? Guess right, because your life depends on it.” “This squirt gun”, Freak says. “And a chemistry set. That’s what I got for Christmas.” “Good old reliable H2SO4, an oily, colorless, corrosive liquid used in dyes, paints, explosives, and many chemical experiments.” (Philbrick 131, 132). Kevin has made many useful inventions, in this case to escape from Killer

Once the analysis of the current APFT exercises have been completed the research will move on to the combat oriented tasks described in the TRADOC PT Manual. This leads us into stage two of the research. The tasks describe within the manual can be found within chapter 13 of the manual. The TRADOC manual is also Army wide guidance concerning what types of tasks Soldiers must be able to perform in combat situations. The actions prescribed in the manual will be evaluated on the same criteria as the current APFT format. The tasks specifically include: marching, running, lifting from ground and overhead, lunching pushing and rotations. These actions will again be broken down into the different body actions used in each movement and associated with the type of muscle contractions used. The TRADOC Tasks will be categorized and their characteristics identified on the following graph.

“A war is not over when a war is over ” Kurt Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse Five is about Billy Pilgrim a College dropout who joined the army. It is world war two and Billy Pilgrim is deployed in Germany, he is captured and taken as a prisoner of war. Hemingway's short story “soldier's home” is about herald kerb a soldier that is returning home from the vietnam war. During the war billy and krebs were both heros, but when they return home the true trauma of war set in. Transforming them into anti-hero. Both Billy and kerb function as anti-heroes because there heroic qualities are suppressed. Thesis lack courage, do not have any direction, and they suffer from survivor guilt.

The Tennessee Army National Guard was officially recognized in 1796 when Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state (Tennessee Blue Book, n.d.). Tennessee became known as the volunteer state because of the National Guard. In 1780, Colonel John Sevier sent out a request for 100 good men to fight with him and 200 men volunteered. President James Polk sent a nationwide call for 50,000 volunteers to fight with Mexico. Tennessee only had a quota for 2600 volunteers, but 26,000 men volunteered from Tennessee.

Understanding and defining the impact on today’s modern army by the 442nd Infantry Regiment during WWII, is evident by their unique formation that stood out amongst organizations during that period. While trying to compare the differences in social acceptance from a unit composed almost entirely of Soldiers of Japanese ancestry, you must first understand the period in which this unit left its legacy.

Would you stay and fight for your country when you couldn’t fight for yourself and your health. Valley Forge was the perfect test for this question. Valley Forge was a cold time, with sick and dying people, and food shortages. 1,800 to 2500 people died during this winter camp led by George Washington. If you were a soldier at Valley Forge, would you have quit on your country and your name? If I were a soldier, I would have stayed and fought till I couldn’t any longer, for my country.

The 83d Chemical Mortal Battalion was a major asset During World War II. They consistently and effectively supported infantry divisions, armored divisions, and airborne divisions by delivering high explosive smoke munitions. They participated in over 5 campaigns while fighting on two separate continents to include amphibious and glider assaults. The unit activated on the 10th of June 1942 at Camp Gordon, GA, the 83d consisted of A, B, C, D Company as well as a Headquarters Company. At the end of their tour the 83d Chemical

Humans are judgmental creatures. One of our most significant philosophy is “not judging a book by its cover”, which examines our habit to judge. We did not purposely develop this questionable characteristic; we seem to have been with this evolutionary trait. We judge everything as a survival instinct to protect ourselves; the perception we create from our personal opinions determine whether we believe something is friendly or foe. As with everything, we judge ourselves, and we tend to be our biggest critic. We constantly judge ourselves, but why? People have referred to this type of judgement as self-esteem. Self-esteem is measured by how positive we view ourselves: the more positive our perception of our self, the higher our self-esteem and

In war, a soldier's entire future is unpredictable. This unpredictability leads to the constant fear that the things closest to them will be gone in any second. Many soldiers lose the comraderies they cherish the most. As a result, it is common that a soldier will not want to attach himself to anything or anyone due to the scaring images of soldiers dying one by one. After the war Krebs found being compassionate and

Meet Jerry Yellin, a 90 year-old World War II veteran and ex-fighter pilot. He has a wife of 64 years, Helene, four sons and six grandchildren. He was 17 years old during the bombing of Pearl Harbor and because of the frustration he felt, he joined the Army Air-Corps that following February on his 18th birthday. He attended flight school at Luke Field in Phoenix, Arizona and graduated when he was 19 years-old. Just barely 21, he landed on Iwo Jima, an island located 650 miles from Japan and just 8 square miles in size. In his own words, “I quickly became familiar with death.” (www.tm.org, 2014) World War II claimed the lives of nearly a half million American Soldiers and over 15 million total deaths, including civilians. (WWII website, no date)

General George Smith Patton for many Americans is the unrivaled symbol of the American army during World War II. His passion for warfare and his uncanny ability to lead men allowed him to grasp any situation on a battlefield. General Patton gained a reputation both stateside and in Europe for his hardnosed and unyielding tactics. In 1970, a film in Hollywood showed a glimpse of what George S. Patton was like in real life. In this article, we shall discuss how General Patton was portrayed in this film against real life accounts.